There are ten players remaining in a 45 player SNG. Six are paid. Blinds are 250-500 and play is five-handed. Action is folded to you in the small blind and you hold the 8c-9s. You have 9200 chips and the big blind has 12,500. You complete the blind and the BB checks. The flop is the 5s-6c-9c. You bet 1,000. The BB raises to 2,000 and you call. The turn is the 5c. The pot is 5,000 and you have 4,600 left.
What’s your move?
I rewind to "The BB raises to 2,000 and you call" and either jam or fold.
Jam. Your TP with your flush outs makes you a good candidate to win this hand due to pressure poker.
Half dozen answers that are possible. You only name the hand. It is an interesting hand. You do post those.
BTW, unless you’re dumb as I often am, you fold. One of my weaknesses is getting into wizzing contests with the other blind. Move the discussion to a player that limped who might have a different hand and I might play back. Against the other blind, the range of hands he might have are between ‘Pocket Rockets’ and ‘The Hammer’. Why gamble with a stack that still has a nice M?
Other than the fact the flush got there, the board paired, and there was a flopped straight possible – I like your hand. There is a good chance the $2k raise was a knee-jerk raise to you autobetting the flop, but IMO there is just too much out there. If you push, and he shows you 4 7o, then type ‘nh’ and move on….
Then again….you DO have one out to the mortal nuts (in France, known as "Le Nuts Mortale")
Sorry, that should say "if you FOLD, and he shows you 4 7 o…."
I think you have to ask yourself at the beginning of the hand. What am I likely to play this hand for. Meaning how much am I willing to invest. To some degree you said 3K with your actions. So my question is why didn’t you just raise to 3K preflop? 89o doesn’t play well HU. If you hit a pair it doesn’t look great. On the flop if you were willing to play the flop for 2k why not bet it. If you had done this and you get raised you pretty much know you are beat.
Out of position is no way to try to screw someone.
Check and pray for a showdown (wimp but acceptable due to having chips left).
Pushski (power poker)!
I don’t like the size of his raise on the flop. If he was still drawing, I would expect just a call. If he had only caught a small piece of it, such as pairing one of the board cards, I would expect a bigger bet to force you out. I could easily see him limping in with 87 and flopping a straight, or with any two of the board and catching two pair. The relatively small raise looks like he wants a call. You do have some outs, but if you go any further you could get committed with a marginal hand. I’m with Drizz: check and pray.
I would not want to go out with top pair, weak kicker, miracle draw when I"m close to the money. I check and hope he does the same.
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I wouldn’t have called the flop raise, for the same reasons pokerpeaker mentioned. It’s just not a hand to take a stand with for me. There’ll be a better hand and a better spot. In those situations, I always think of a quote from Doyle Brunson, "Don’t go broke in an un-raised pot." Very true!